#11 hijra, gender and sexual rights in Bangladesh
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In April, Adnan Hossain wrote for us about the hijra, Bangladesh’s “third gender”.
#12 What is Cancel Culture? And does it matter?
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In July, Phil Butland responded to the ongoing debate about ‘Cancel Culture’ by arguing that most – but not all – of its victims were actually profiting from the controversy.
#13 How should Marxists view the COVID-19 pandemic of 2019-2020?
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In March, Hari Kumar responded to the then new outbreak of Covid-19, and tried to locate it in a Marxist understanding of the world.
#14 What are the causes of the Coronavirus?
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Also in March, we published an interview with evolutionary biologist Rob Wallace who was one of the first people to provide a thought-out analysis of what was happening.
#15 The problem of Pablo Picasso
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In May, Hari Kumar looked at the legacy of the painter Pablo Picasso.
#16 Ernst Nolte, the Holocaust and the AfD
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In April, Pashraw Mohammed looked at the ideological continuum leading from German historian Ernst Nolte to the AfD.
#17 The dangers of ending the lockdown
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In April, Jonathan Neale argued passionately against calls to end the lockdown.
#18 My feminism will always be unfinished
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In March, Berlin-based Sudanese socialist Sara Abbas explained what feminism means to her.
#19 Yehudit Yinhar on unlearning Zionism
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In October, we interviewed Berlin-based Israeli artist Yehudit Yinhar about the School for Unlearning Zionism, an event that she had helped organise that was dogged by false accusations of antisemitism.
#20 Spain’s lockdown is an act of solidarity
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In March, Bilbao-based socialist Ana Barrena Lertxundi argued in favour of the Spanish lockdown.
#21 Jewish socialists in the UK speak out
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In December, we interviewed Rob Ferguson, Lisa Halgarten, Ilan Pappe, David Rosenberg and Saira Weiner about Jeremy Corbyn, antisemitism in the UK and more.
#22 Coronavirus and community activism
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In March, Jonathan Neale suggested a different way of responding to epidemics
#23 Germany has a Nazi problem
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In July, we published an extended version of Duroyan Fertl’s article about Nazi infiltration into Germany’s intelligence service.
#24 The German Neutrality law – a travesty
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In September, Jacinta Nandi unpicked the inherent racism in Germany’s neutrality law.
#25 View from Paris: Nightmare in France
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In October, our regular French correspondent John Mullen reported on Islamophobic responses to the recent killing of a schoolteacher.
#26 Jack Charlton – the footballer who fought fascism
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In July, Anna Southern remembered the anti-fascist footballer and football manager from the mining community of Northern England.
#27 Extreme right escalates violence in Portugal
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In August, Fabian Figueiredo reported a new escalation of extreme right-wing violence in Portugal.
#28 Who is European? A message from the Mediterranean trench
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In April, Ana Barrena Lertxundi looked at the EU plan for tackling COVID-19.
#29 The lonesome martyrdom of Jeremy Corbyn
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In December, Phil Butland looked at the right-wing intrigues behind the rapid fall of Jeremy Corbyn.
#30 White Fraglity is a corporate cult
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In July, Australian socialist Louise O’Shea argued that White Fragility author Robin DiAngelo has a racket to rival that of the Catholic Church.